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Contents
About this guide
- What we're assuming about you
- Where to go for help
- Conventions
- Technology note
The user interface
- Tools
- Menus
- Context menus
- Palettes
- Palette groups and palette sets
- Layout controls
- Views and view sets
Projects and layouts
- Working with projects
- Working with layouts
  - Project-level and layout-level resources
- Working with guides
- Undoing and redoing actions
Boxes, lines, and tables
- Understanding items and content
- Understanding handles
- Understanding Bézier shapes
- Working with boxes
- Working with lines
- Manipulating items
- Working with callouts
- Working with tables
Text and typography
- Editing text
- Importing and exporting text
  - Import/export filters
  - Importing and exporting text with Unicode options
- Finding and changing text
  - Special character codes
- Checking spelling
  - Auxiliary dictionaries
- Counting words and characters
- Applying character attributes
  - Applying a font
  - Choosing a font size
  - Applying type styles
  - Applying color, shade, and opacity
  - Applying horizontal or vertical scale
  - Applying baseline shift
  - Applying emphasis
  - Controlling half-width characters
  - Counting characters
  - Working with font sets
  - Working with grouped characters
  - Aligning characters on a line
  - Applying multiple character attributes
- Applying paragraph attributes
  - Controlling alignment
  - Controlling indentation
  - Controlling leading
  - Controlling space before and after paragraphs
  - Setting tabs
  - Controlling widow and orphan lines
  - Working with non-breaking character sets
- Controlling kerning
  - Kerning manually
  - Kerning automatically
- Controlling hyphenation and justification
  - Specifying hyphenation exceptions
  - Using discretionary hyphens
- Controlling tracking
  - Tracking manually
  - Editing tracking tables
  - Sending
- Working with style sheets
  - Creating and editing paragraph style sheets
  - Creating and editing character style sheets
  - Applying style sheets
  - Appending style sheets
- Working with conditional styles
  - Creating a conditional style
  - Applying a conditional style
  - Removing conditional styles
  - Using conditional style markers
  - Editing a conditional style
- Bullets and numbering
  - Working with bullet styles
  - Working with numbering styles
  - Working with outline styles
  - Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets
- Positioning text in text boxes
  - Using baseline grid
  - Aligning text vertically
  - Specifying text inset
  - Specifying story direction
- Controlling font usage
- Converting text to boxes
- Using text runaround
  - Running text around all sides of an item
  - Running text around lines and text paths
  - Running text around text boxes
  - Running text around pictures
  - Fine-tuning a runaround path
  - Editing a runaround path
- Working with text paths
- Creating drop caps
- Creating rules above and below paragraphs
- Using anchored boxes
  - Anchoring boxes and lines in text
  - Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting anchored boxes and lines
  - Unanchoring boxes and lines
- Working with OpenType fonts
  - Applying OpenType styles
  - Using ligatures
- Working with the Glyphs palette
- Displaying invisible characters
- Inserting special characters
  - Inserting spaces
  - Inserting other special characters
- Specifying character language
- Using font fallback
- Importing and exporting text with Unicode options
- Working with font mapping rules
- Working with design grids
  - Understanding design grids
  - Design grid basics
  - Working with grid styles
    - Creating grid styles
    - Applying a grid style to a text box
  - Using design grids
- Working with rubi text
  - Rubi alignment options
  - Mono rubi
  - Rubi base alignment options
  - Rubi overhang options
- Working with hanging characters
  - Creating hanging character classes
  - Creating hanging character sets
  - Applying hanging character sets
- Working with mojigumi sets and classes
  - Creating and editing mojigumi character classes
  - Creating and editing mojigumi sets
  - Applying mojigumi sets
- Character mapping for legacy projects
  - Mapping for projects that use UDA/VDA characters
  - Mapping for projects that use custom characters
Pictures
- Working with pictures
- Working with clipping paths
- Working with alpha masks
- Working with PSD pictures
Color, opacity, and drop shadows
- Working with colors
- Working with opacity
- Color management
- Working with drop shadows
Document construction
- Using automatic page numbering
- Creating an automatic text box
- Working with master pages
- Working with layers
- Working with lists
- Working with indexes
- Working with books
- Working with libraries
Output
- Printing layouts
- Exporting layouts
- Using Collect for Output
- Working with output styles
- Working with trapping
- Understanding flattening and production issues
Notes
- Creating notes
- Working with notes
Redline
- Tracking changes
- Viewing tracked changes
- Accepting and rejecting changes
Collaboration and single-sourcing
- Working with shared content
- Working with Composition Zones
eBooks
- Working with Reflow view
- Adding interactivity to ePub eBooks
- Creating a TOC for ePub or Kindle
- Working with eBook metadata
- Exporting for ePub
  - Specifying CSS for ePub export
- Exporting for Kindle
Job Jackets
- Understanding Job Jackets
- Working with Job Jackets
  - Basic mode and Advanced mode
  - Creating Job Jackets files
- Working with Job Tickets
- The default Job Jackets file
- Working with Resources: Advanced mode
- Working with Layout Specifications
  - Creating a Layout Specification: Advanced mode
  - Applying a Layout Specification to a layout
- Working with Rules and Rule Sets
- Evaluating a layout
- Job Jackets locking
- Printing with JDF output
Working with multiple languages
- Applying a character language
- Changing the program language
XTensions software
- Working with XTensions modules
  - Installing XTensions modules
  - Enabling and disabling XTensions modules
  - Working with XTensions sets (Windows only)
- Custom Bleeds XTensions software
  - Using Custom Bleeds
  - Using Clip at Bleed Edge
- DejaVu XTensions software (Windows only)
- Drop Shadow XTensions software
- Guide Manager Pro XTensions software
  - Using the Guides palette
  - Guides palette menu
  - Creating guides with Guide Manager Pro
  - Creating grids with Guide Manager Pro
  - Creating rows and columns
  - Creating bleed and safety guides
- Item Find/Change XTensions software
- Item Styles XTensions software
  - Using the Item Styles palette
  - Creating Item Styles
  - Checking Item Style usage
- PDF Filter XTensions software
  - Importing a PDF file into a picture box
- Scale XTensions software
- Scissors XTensions software
- Script XTensions software
  - Box Tools submenu
  - Grid submenu
  - Images submenu
  - Picture Box submenu
  - Saving submenu
  - Special submenu
  - Stories submenu
  - Tables submenu
  - Typography submenu
- Shape of Things XTensions software
  - Using the Starburst tool
- Super Step and Repeat XTensions software
  - Using Super Step and Repeat
- Table Import XTensions software
- Type Tricks
  - Make Fraction
  - Make Price
  - Word Space Tracking
  - Line Check
  - Custom Underline
- Word 6–2000 Filter
- Cloner XTensions software
- ImageGrid XTensions software
- Linkster XTensions software
- ShapeMaker XTensions software
  - ShapeMaker Waves tab
  - ShapeMaker Polygons tab
  - ShapeMaker Spirals tab
  - ShapeMaker Rectangles tab
  - ShapeMaker Presets tab
- Other XTensions modules
Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Project preferences
  - Preferences — Project — General
- Layout preferences
Legal notices
Index

• Style Sheets: Displays and hides the Style Sheets palette.

• Tools: Displays and hides the Tools palette.

• Welcome Screen: Displays the welcome screen.

In addition, this menu includes an item for every open window. You can use these menu

items to easily switch between windows.

Help menu

The Help menu provides access to the online help. This menu includes the following

commands:

• Search Use this command to search the local help file.

• Help Topics (Mac OS X only): Use this command to display the online help.

• Contents (Windows only): Use this option to view the Contents tab of the Help window.

• Index (Windows only): Use this option to view the Index tab of the Help window.

• Transfer QuarkXPress License (Windows only): Use this option to transfer your license

to another computer.

• About QuarkXPress (Windows only): Use this command to display information about

QuarkXPress, such as the version number.

• Edit License Code (Windows only): Use this command to change the validation code of

an installed copy of QuarkXPress. By changing this code, you can change a Test Drive

version (formerly called "evaluation copy") of QuarkXPress into a fully functional version,

change the languages supported by the user interface, or change QuarkXPress into a Plus

edition.

• Check for Updates (Windows only): Use this command to check for updates to QuarkXPress.

• Quark Update Settings (Windows only): Use this command to configure automatic update

settings.

Context menus

QuarkXPress offers a wide variety of functionality through context menus. To display a

context menu, Control+click (Mac OS X) or right-click in text, on a picture, or on a palette.

Palettes

To open or display a palette, check the palette name in the Window menu.

To close an open palette, click the close box in the upper-left corner of the palette, uncheck

the palette name in the Window menu, or use the appropriate keyboard equivalent.

(Mac OS X only) Palettes can be vertically docked to the left and right edges of the screen,

and docked palettes on screen edges form a group and can be moved as a group. You can

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